EXAMPLE : AS3, physics (APE)
On of the main goals of our partnership with the Irving School District is make learning fun. There are some apparent easy ways to do this. Make a animation or video, make a video game, or board game out of the content.
Most of these things are very well traveled and researched, some feel more like trickery than creating a good user experience, so I often try to step outside of the normal established way of doing things and come at a problem from a different angle.
What I tried to do here is make the process of learning entertaining, not by making the content entertaining (like a play or children’s video) but by using physics to give the interface a good, fun feel. The information is simple, the quiz based feedback ads reinforcement, and the physics make the exploratory learning process fun and rewarding.
The foundation files created while working on TANK! allowed this experiment to be created in a couple of hours.